Uecker-Randow

The district of Uecker- Randow was a county in the east of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Together with the Mecklenburg Western Pomerania and the Hanseatic city of Greifswald he went on in the wake of the district reform in 2011 in the newly formed district of Vorpommern - Greifswald.

• 2.1 prehistory
• 2.2 12th to 19th century
• 2.3 After 1945
• 2.4 Population development
• 2.5 District Administrators

• 3.1 Kreistag
• 3.2 Coat of Arms
• 3.3 flag

• 4.1 Official Free communities
• 4.2 offices

• 5.1 Offices mergers
• 5.2 Changing of communities over county boundaries
• 5.3 Amalgamations
• 5.4 Name changes

Geography

Location

The district of Uecker- Randow had its name from the two biggest waters of the circular area, the rivers Uecker Randow and. In the north of the county a coastline along the Szczecin Lagoon runs. This line forms on the border with the Republic of Poland to the Bay of Neuwarper lake. The northern half of the district is occupied by the Ueckermünder heath, wooded lowlands. In the West, the county share of the Endmoränenzug Brohm Mountains. Here also lies the 133 m above sea level. NN highest elevation ( Ziegler mountain). The southern part of the district is located east and west of the Randow in a hilly area and adjacent to the countryside area of ​​northern Brandenburg Uckermark. The only means the center of the circle was Pasewalk, where Ueckermuende in part fulfilled middle center functions. Sub-centers are Eggesin, Torgelow, Strasburg and Löcknitz. Rural central places are Penkun and Ferdinandshof.

Landscape shape

The animal and plant life in the district is rich in biotypes, which can be found partly in tight spaces, but also scattered widely. In the south and south-west a variety of lakes, bogs and kettle holes are incorporated into the soft undulating loamy Grundmoränenplatten. Due to the good soils primarily agriculture in these areas operated and the proportion of forest here is very low. Along the Randowtals you meet a unique for Germany steppe flora, which is mainly characterized by continental dry grasslands. The north of the county is mainly characterized by a high forest cover, which is also due to the poorer soil properties. Along the Haffküste as well as in many other parts of the circle extend so typical of the landscape avenues. Through the decades of use on parts of the Ueckermünder Heath as a military training area of the NVA and later the armed forces, valuable dwarf shrub heaths and Magerrasen have developed in these areas. At the margins of wildlife sanctuaries and refuges have been created, for example for eagle. Between the Ueckermünder moors and the mountains Brohm is the Friedländer Große Wiese, they once constituted the most extensive Kalkflachmoor northern Germany it proceeded a large-scale melioration in the 1960s by the former plant and animal world, however, not much left. Of particular importance are the meadows today as a resting and feeding area for approximately 100 breeding bird, and again 80 migratory bird species. The Brohm Mountains are characterized by extensive beech and mixed forests. In the valleys and lowering the hilly forest Endmoränenzugs many kettle holes and Moore are embedded. They provide the habitat for the black stork, lesser spotted eagle, cranes and deer. On the edge of the mountains Brohm is the Galenbecker lake with sanctuaries for endangered in Central Europe animal and plant species.

Since 2005, the natural area is protected by the Nature Park at the Szczecin Lagoon.

Land use

Other land ( eg wasteland ) are not included.

History

Prehistory

The first people came to the Vistula glaciation in the region. In the Valley of Randow at Wollschow testifies a number of megalithic tombs and stone cists believe that members of the Neolithic Funnel Beaker culture, about 4000 BC, the area populated. The so-called " whale grave " ( Wollschow 34) is a 1929 excavated stone box. It owes its name to the shape of the capstone. In only 0.8 x 0.5 m measuring chamber three children skeletons in crouched position ( dressed legs) and a ceramic shell were found. A shell stone and a Slavic castle wall are monuments of recent times.

With the migration of peoples in the years 400 to 600 Germanic tribes moved from the area of ​​Ueckermünder Heath to the south and west. From the 6th century until the 7th century onwards Western Slavs and Ukranen in the partially orphaned region. The Ukrer / Ukranen belong to the tribe of the Wenden, attributable to the large tribe of Lutizier. With the destruction of Jaromarsburg Arkona in 1168 the sinking of the Slavs was continued. The Slavs were Christianized and monastic orders established themselves in the Ueckermünder Heath.

12th to 19th century

In the 12th century German settlers from Holstein, Lower Saxony and Westphalia came to the region and brought modern farming methods. In the following years, the craft began to emerge, along with fishing off the main source of income in agriculture. The most important trade routes of the time were the Uecker and the Lagoon to the Baltic Sea. It developed charcoal kilns and brickworks on the use of local clay deposits. In addition, bog iron ore from the region and pig iron from Sweden was processed in the ironworks.

In the Thirty Years' War the territory of Ueckermünder Heath was almost completely depopulated. Only with the Peace of Westphalia, by which the area fell to Sweden, the area was settled slowly. 1720, with the Peace of Stockholm, the area fell to the south of the Peene, including the island of Usedom in Brandenburg- Prussia. During this time, agriculture was further cultivated. It originated trades such as sawmills, charcoal burning, ironworks and shipyards and the regulated forestry has been introduced.

After the Seven Years War (1756-1763) agriculture was cultivated further, it emerged dairies and livestock was raised, and introduced the system of crop rotation. The population doubled in less than 100 years. Due to the busy business of factory brickworks, iron foundries and mills cutting more and more people found the primary activity in the industry. Agriculture was doing just a sideline.

After 1945

After 1945, the collectivization in conjunction with the industrialization of agriculture has been driven. The fishing was also industrialized and fish processing companies have been created. The region was dominated by the stationing of troops of the NVA and the establishment of military training areas. After the reunification of the region was not least rearranged in agriculture. Today the region is characterized by a very low population density and diverse natural environment.

The county was formed on June 12, 1994 from the former county Pasewalk (up to July 18, 1992, when the divided according to Brandenburg City Bruessow and the communities Nechlin, Wollschow, Woddow, Bagemühl, Green Mountain ), from over 90 % of the former district Ueckermuende ( only the communities of Neuendorf A and Wietstock came to the Mecklenburg Western Pomerania ) and from the eastern part of the former district of Strasburg ( Strasburg city and the municipalities Blumenhagen, United Luckow and Klein Luckow ).

For administrative reform and the creation of new large case intended to Mecklenburg -Vorpommern, 2009, the deliberations of the state government went there to let the county as a whole merged into a new "County Südvorpommern ". After the judgment of the district Constitutional Court of 26 July 2007, the original reform law than with the country's constitution was incompatible not be implemented. As part of a new district reform in 2011, the county eventually became part of the new district Vorpommern - Greifswald with the county town of Greifswald.

Population Development

The county has lost up to 2005 from 1990 about 20 % of its inhabitants. According to a population forecast of the state government in 2020 only 53 597 people live in the county, which would correspond to a decrease compared to 2002 by 34.4 %, which is the largest population loss of all circles in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The reason is a negative net migration and an accompanying high birth rates. 2005, the proportion:

• The under-25s about 23.5%
• The 25 to 50 -year-old about 35.5%
• Of more than 50 years about 41 %.

District administrators

Policy

Council

The council of the district of Uecker -Randow consisted of 47 deputies. After the election of 7 June 2009 he sat until September 3, 2011 as follows:

The district ( constituency number 62 ) consisted of 112 electoral districts with 63 742 eligible voters. To select walked 31 414 voters who cast invalid 3574 and 88 668 valid votes. This corresponds to a voter turnout of around 49.3 % (all data from 2009).

For information about election procedures and to legal provisions: County Council (Mecklenburg- Vorpommern)

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on 6 June 1995 by the Home Office and registered under No. 83 of the coat of arms role of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Blazon: " Argent, a of blue, forth coming with two silver wave beams occupied Wellenschildfuß, tapering upward, gezinnter red brick circular tower with flattened pointed roof and two beam -arranged black windows, accompanied: the right of a gold braided red Griffin, left by a gold braided red eagle. "

The coat of arms was designed by the Neubrandenburg Lothar Herpich.

Flag

The county flag of the district of Uecker- Randow showed in five vertical stripes alternating the colors red, silver ( white) Blue Silver ( white) red. The red stripes take each quarter, with the blue stripe occupies one-eighteenth of the flag height. In the middle of the bunting is the county coat of arms, which interrupts the blue stripes. The height of the shield is to the height of the bunting as 4:9. Height and length of bunting relate to each other as 3:5.

Cities and Towns

Official Free communities

( Population figures as at 31 December 2010)

Official Free communities

Offices

Offices with office belonging to cities and towns

* Head Office Management

• 2 Office Löcknitz Penkun ( 10,885 )

• 3 Office Torgelow - Ferdinandshof ( 14,858 )

• 4 Office Uecker-Randow - Tal ( 7855 ) [Seat: Pasewalk ]

Field changes

In the years since 1994 in the area of ​​the district of Uecker- Randow as in the entire state of Mecklenburg -Vorpommern extensive territorial changes took place.

From the original five offices, four offices after completion of the administrative reform on 1 January 2005. The cities Torgelow and Eggesin lost their Amtsfreiheit. The number of municipalities was reduced from 65 to 54

Offices mergers

• Merger of the offices Penkun and Löcknitz to the new exchange Löcknitz Penkun ( 1 July 2004)
• Merger of the city Eggesin with the Office Ueckermuende - country to his new position at the Szczecin Lagoon (1 January 2005 )
• Merger of the City of Torgelow with the Office Ferdinandshof to the new exchange Torgelow - Ferdinandshof (1 January 2005 )

Change from communities across county boundaries

• The municipality of Lübs from the Mecklenburg Western Pomerania in the district of Uecker -Randow (1 January 1998 )
• AC and annexation of Wietstock from the Mecklenburg Western Pomerania in the district of Uecker -Randow (1 January 2011 )

Incorporations

• Resolution of the municipality Rieth - incorporation to Luckow ( 31 December 1997)
• Resolution of the communities Grünz, summer village, Storkow and Wollin b. Penkun - incorporation to Penkun (1 January 1999 )
• Resolution of the municipality Glashütte - incorporation to Rothenklempenow ( 31 December 1999)
• Resolution of the municipality Belling - incorporation to Jatznick (1 January 2001 )
• Resolution of the municipality Marienthal - incorporation to square (1 January 2002 )
• Resolution of the municipality Bismark - incorporation to Ramin (1 January 2004 )
• Resolution of the municipality Pampow - incorporation to Blankensee (13 June 2004)
• Resolution of the municipality Lebehn - incorporation to Krackow (13 June 2004)
• Resolution of the municipality Mewegen - incorporation to Rothenklempenow (1 January 2005 )
• Resolution of the municipality Wietstock - incorporation to Altwigshagen (1 January 2011 )

Name Changes

• From city to city Strasburg Strasburg (Uckermark) (1st March 1995)
• From community to community Vogelsang Vogelsang Warsin (9 December 1995)